I've got a compilation of the ATP's 'MatchFacts' for this season, and since the ATP only presents a handful of leaderboards, I decided I might as well post some of the notable stuff I've calculated here. I'll try to keep it updated, depending on how much time it takes me

Obviously, these numbers depend on the data being taken correctly at the match itself, and while I've removed all of the obvious errors, there's still a lot of potential for messed up results. There isn't a ton of intrinsic value to these, but I think they're fun to follow

Thanks mate for taking time to do this... but even ATP counts GS stats towards its leaderboards,why have you removed them?? or am i being wrong?

The player leaderboards (other than time), do count the GS matches, I removed them from the time ones because they would totally mess with the rankings (players who played the most GS matches would be at the top).

I meant to just leave them out of the longest match listings as well, but I accidentally left them out of all the extreme matches, I'll add them in

And it's not that I removed them just that I didn't include them. I can create leaderboards and extremes for any particular subset of matches, and I just forgot to include GS for some.

Week 20 Notes:
The Kitzbuhel final between Garcia-Lopez and Benneteau was the fifth longest match of the year, at 190 minutes.

Can anyone confirm the length of Kohlschreiber-Tsonga from Dusseldorf? The ATP has it at well over 3 hours, which would make it the slowest match of the year by a wide margin. So slow, in fact, that I have disregarded it. I have the same problem with Garcia-Lopez v. Vassallo Arguello in Kitzbuhel, which played a fairly normal # of points, but in just over 3 hours, according to the ATP scoreboard.

In Dusseldorf, Rainer Schuettler's collapse at the hands of Robin Soderling, 6-0, 6-0, was tied for the third shortest match of the season to date.

Dusseldorf also saw the highest first serve percentage of the season, as Andreev served 88.3% against Del Potro.

Chela's 96.7% first serve winning % against Ramirez-Hidalgo in Kitzbuhel put him at second-best.

A couple of strong first return performances this week, as Soderling took 70% of Schuettler's first serves in Dusseldorf, while Melzer took 64.9% of Gil's in Kitzbuhel. In fact, Soderling put up the second best return performance of the season in winning 73.5% of Schuttler's service points.

As you might expect, Soderling's double-bagel of Schuettler was a huge blowout, the second biggest on tour this season.

Schuettler was also involved in a match with an identical # of points scored between the two players, when he split 50-50 with Troicki in the WTC final. This was the first such match of the year that ended in two sets.

The 44 minute encounter between Hewitt and Schwank at Queen's was the third shortest match of the season.

When it came to the fastest paced matches, two from this week entered the top 5, with the speedier grass helping the speed of the game. Istomin's win over Ivo Minar, a three-setter that took just more than an hour, is now third, while Becker's straight-set win over Hanescu in Halle moves into fifth.

Ivo Karlovic asserted himself in the aces category with a strong week, setting a new 3-set season high with 28 in his first round match, then smashing that with 33 in his second rounder. His quarterfinal loss to Roddick also appears on the top 5. Karlovic's 33 ace performance is tied for 4th on the season in all matches, including GSs.

Karlovic's performance in the first round may have been the most impressive, though, as he served a spectacular 2.33 aces per service game, smashing the previous high. His matches against Mahut and Roddick also made the top 5 in this category.

Queen's also featured one of the best first serve performances of the year, though it was not from Karlovic, but from Murray. The Scot won 30 of 31 points on his first serve against Mardy Fish, good for second on the season.

Fitting with this theme, three of the five best performance's on serve this season came at Queen's: Murray's against Fish and Fish's against Feliciano Lopez were both tied for second, while Baghdatis' win over James Ward comes in fifth.

Bizarrely, the start of grass season also saw two of the best first serve returning performances of the seas; Hewitt's destruction of Schwank in Queen's was second and Olivier Rochus' double-bagling of Vicente in Halle was fourth. Both of these ranked in the top five of overall service return performances.

Hewitt's win over Schwank was also the fourth largest blow-out of the season.

Halle saw the thirteenth match of the year in which both players won the same number of points, in Serra's victory over Sela.

The pattern in this last one is a common way this happens: one player loses the opening set poorly, then wins the last two much closer.

The single most interesting example is probably Andreev d. Tsonga, IW R32. This was a straight sets win for Igor, 7-5, 6-4, but he won three less points than Tsonga.

Only one player has been involved in more than 3 of these matches this year, Juan Monaco. This includes his win over Murray in Rome, and a very interesting stretch in Buenos Aires: Monaco beat Nalbandian with fewer points in the semis, then lost to Robredo despite winning more points in the final.

Robredo and Florent Serra are the only players with three wins of this type, both are 3-0 in these matches. Robby Ginepri has been less lucky, as he is 0-3 in these circumstances.

The pattern in this last one is a common way this happens: one player loses the opening set poorly, then wins the last two much closer.

The single most interesting example is probably Andreev d. Tsonga, IW R32. This was a straight sets win for Igor, 7-5, 6-4, but he won three less points than Tsonga.

Only one player has been involved in more than 3 of these matches this year, Juan Monaco. This includes his win over Murray in Rome, and a very interesting stretch in Buenos Aires: Monaco beat Nalbandian with fewer points in the semis, then lost to Robredo despite winning more points in the final.

Robredo and Florent Serra are the only players with three wins of this type, both are 3-0 in these matches. Robby Ginepri has been less lucky, as he is 0-3 in these circumstances.

This is great !

Exactly what I wished !

I'm interested in these matches, not all of these, you're right, but as you made a statistics with matches where players had won an equal number of points, I think this one was even more interesting.

And you're right : it's more interesting when it's not a situation where a player won one set easily and lost the two others very tight.

A couple of quick matches enter that list this week, as Becker's 54-minute, 6-3, 6-4 win over Serra in 's-Hertogenbosch is the fifth quickest of the season, while Querrey's win over Capdeville in Eastbourne, 6-2 7-5 in just 51 minutes, is at the top.

Dick Norman earned an inauspicious record in the Netherlands, as his 13 double faults against Chardy were the season's second highest total.

Querrey's quick performance against Capdeville in Eastbourne also featured one of the highest ace/service game results of the season, tied for third overall.

As mentioned earlier in the thread, Bogdanovic's 35 of 36 performance on first serve against Minar is the new ATP season high.

A match with identical # of points also occurred this week, as Lu and Fleming split the points 94-94, with the former winning the match in three sets.

The week also featured 3 'duong Specials', where the losing player won more points. These were Querrey losing to Istomin and Bogdanovic losing to Tursunov in Eastbourne and Chardy's loss against Schuettler in 's-Hertogenbosch.